As it happens, the next book on my #tsundoku pile is by Benjamin Zephaniah, but I'm taking ages on my current one, so who knows when I'll read it. #books#bookstodon@bookstodon 📖
@lunarwolf_howls@readinglightsout@bookstodon Same though! Me and my girlfriend were reading the Mortal Instruments on Bard, and like half-way through the series, the narrator changes. At least, I think it was that series. It’s been a few months.
Remote Control is another one of my favorite Okorafor works. It's a novella, and has more love and klindness between the people than in some of her other works, such as Noor.
@andreaslindholm@bookstodon not great overall but at least the search function usually finds me what I was looking for, unlike some other sites I buy books from.
My son has downloaded Discord, which means I really can't put off having a comprehensive discussion about online safety with him anymore. We've had lots of small conversations about not trusting everything you see online and stuff, butI haven't been very good about more comprehensive education. I do better with a book to guide the convo, but all the ones I'm finding are from 2019 or earlier. Surely there are more recent books for kids? #OnlineSafety#Bookstodon@bookstodon
@ghpancardo@bookstodon he’s 12. I found a worksheet composed by kids for something, but it focuses more on technical security (still important!) than on netiquette and social safety.
This year I have read ten novels, and two collections, by Grand Master Robin McKinley. The last is also the last one to be published, ten years ago. Shadows is enjoyable, if not up to the level of my overall favorite, Sunshine.
@madrobin@bookstodon
I should have also mentioned Chalice among the traditional fantasies. I use fantasticfiction.com a lot to track books and authors. Her page is:
This morning I finished listening to the audio book version of Icebreaker by Hannah Grace. It was good, I just feel like it could have ended better. It also seemed to drag on way longer than it needed to. Curious to know what others think of the book. It was all over booktok and normally I don't go for booktok books much. @bookstodon@readinglightsout@romancelandia
@The_BookishWolf I agree that it seemed longer than it needed to be, to me. Lots of time not moving the plot and a massive cast of teammates and roommates who are mainly scenery. The follow-up, Wildfire, starts similarly slowly but feels better paced in the end, so Grace is either learning or got more aggressively edited the second time through. @bookstodon@readinglightsout@romancelandia
FWIW, here are my favorite SFFH books of the year, in the order I read them, not by preference:
Novels:
The Terraformers - Annalee Newitz
Furious Heaven - Kate Elliott
Lone Women - Victor LaValle
Dual Memory - Sue Burke
The Water Outlaws - S. L. Huang
Exit Ghost - Jennifer R. Donohue
Novellas:
Lost in the Moment and Found - Seanan McGuire
The Mimicking of Known Successes - Malka Older
Rose/House - Arkady Martine
Mammoths at the Gates - Premee Mohamed
@chestas@bookstodon
I especially approve of Sapkowski's Witcher collection's central position. They released new hardcover edition with some illustrations for the first two, did you know? They'd look amazing in your shelf.
Today's feature is Doc Savage paperbacks of the 1960s and '70s from Bantam Books. They're reprints from Doc Savage magazine, a pulp from the '30s and '40s published by Street and Smith. Nearly 90 percent of the initial Doc Savage stories were written by author Lester Dent. Kenneth Robeson was a house-name owned by Street and Smith.
Adventure awaits!
@DanJ@bookstodon
I'll be honest. My impression of Doc Savage is hearsay... I've yet to read his adventures.
Doc was a specimen of human perfection... seemingly physically and mentally superhuman to the average person, via training and education, but wholly human; akin to Batman.
Doc doesn't have a sidekick, but has trusted individuals he can count on for help. I'm unclear if these people commonly act as a team. I believe there's an old-school version of diversity among them.
I'm sure the motivation of Doc and his "team" aligned with the interests & nationalities of Allied forces from WWII. Doc's adversaries range from mystical & alien to earthly & megalomaniacal.
Superman & Captain America were likely partially inspired & created as Doc Plus, each with distinctly superhuman abilities.